Apps that follow the microservice pattern will not consist entirely of independent services, as there is still a need for a central component that can do reques

Apps that follow the microservice pattern will not consist entirely of independent services, as there is still a need for a central component that can do request handler for responding to user events or routing and initiating individual service processes. To reduce complexity and centralize common functionalities API Gateways such as KONG (https://github.com/mashape/kong https://github.com/mashape/kong) are the base of microservice architectures.